Bees for Development Team

Nicola Bradbear BSc PhD

Nicola Bradbear is an internationally recognised expert in apicultural development. After working at the International Bee Research Association for ten years, she established the independent organisation, Bees for Development in 1993. Nicola is President of the Apimondia Scientific Commission Beekeeping for Rural Development.

Lizzie McLeod MSc

Lizzie recently joined Bees for Development as Project Officer to coordinate African trade projects, provide information services, and develop new project proposals. Her background is in research, project management and consultancy in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in agricultural, mobile phone based and MSME finance.

Rachel Underwood BA (Hons)

Rachel joined Bees for Development in 2009 as Administrator. Rachel studied music at university, and continued to work in arts administration in Oxford and at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society before having a family. She is responsible for the day-to-day bookkeeping, maintaining the Trust database and corresponding with our many supporters.

Janet Lowore BSc MSc

Janet worked in Africa for twelve years prior to joining Bees for Development in 2005. Her background is in social forestry and she has worked in research and as a consultant. Her current focus is project management, proposal writing, consultancy and developing information resources. Her area of interest is value chain analysis, market mapping and market access for the poor

Monica Barlow BA PhD

Monica is our Policy Advisor, helping at Bees for Development on a regular basis.  Monica tackles tasks such as promotion, fundraising, editing and project development. One of Monica's principal areas of interest is permaculture and she has been working to integrate ideas of sustainable beekeeping into permaculture practice.

Longino Masereka BA

Longino is Bees for Development's Business Development Officer, based in Kamwenge, South-West Uganda. Longino's background is in marketing and sales of food products, agricultural extension, supply chain quality management and development. Working full time on the Uganda Honey Trade Project, Longino supports our partners in developing their organisational capacity for increased honey trade. This work includes communication with farmers about the business opportunity of honey production, management systems at the producers' cooperative, and market analysis and negotiation for sale of produce.

Juliet Wright MSc

Juliet joined Bees for Development as part of our Wales for Africa Project in 2009. She has worked as our Information Coordinator for Apiculture in Africa, a role which involves answering enquiries, updating our African Beekeeping Information Portal and preparing training resources for beekeeping courses. She comes from a primate conservation background and became interested in beekeeping as an economic alternative to bushmeat hunting. She coordinates a beekeeping project in Cameroon.

Royston Price BA

Royston has volunteered at Bees for Development since 2010, and works on the library of Apiculture, as well as filing and answering enquiries. Royston has a particular interest in the link between Beekeeping and Monasticism, and plans to start beekeeping as soon as he can find a willing swarm.

Cindy Smith FCCA

Cindy is a qualified accountant now semi-retired following a career spent mainly in NHS Finance, particularly the Ambulance Service. Now living near Ross-on-Wye, she is a director of the Ross-on-Wye Cider & Perry Co Ltd, based at Broome Farm, where she also keeps a small herd of alpacas. Cindy is assisting with the financial management aspects of the Uganda Honey Trade project.

Hester Lilley

Hester has been assisting us since she first encountered Bees for Development at the Apimondia Congress in Montpellier in 2009. Among many other tasks, Hester has masterminded our new supporter scheme, has been responsible for planning and coordinating the current renewal of this website, and the creation of other new material.

Gareth Baker

Gareth runs Wye Valley Apiaries near to Bees for Development Headquarters in Monmouth. Gareth helps us whenever we have a beekeeping workshop, and as a commercial bee farmer with a good range of vehicles and trailers, Gareth also hels us with logistics when we need to move displays from one venue to another.

Thor Wright

John Harris

Gina Edmond

Gwyn Evans

Francine Sagar

Steve Turner

Evelina Beckers

Hugh Gorton PhD

Hugh is a recently retired chemist and food scientist with industrial experience. He recently joined Bees for Development as a volunteer, and has knowedge of nutrition, food legislation and the commercial requirements of EU customers and consumers.